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Melding Overview

Melding is the key to creating powerful equipment in Shiren 1. Although it may seem obvious to some, many people miss the fact that melding is one of the easiest way to quickly boost up your Katana, Mastersword, Windshield (or what have you) to their maximum bonus. The Smith will charge 1,000 Gitan and the most you can get from a blacksmith or an Air Bless or Earth Bless scroll is +1 and on rare occasions, +3. You can waste a Blank Scroll to create an Air or Earth Bless scroll to upgrade your equipment but it's far easier to use random loot found in dungeons. Melding Jars need to be unlocked by progressing side quests.

Melding Jars

Inserting two or more Items of the same type into a Melding Jar will combine them into a single item, melding their bonuses, charges, and/or effects. This can be done with Weapons, Shields, and Staves. In shops, placing an item in a Melding Jar that you haven't paid for (in a shop) will not combine with a similar item in the Jar. However, the jar will still lose a slot. Inserting items that are not weapons, shields or staves into a Melding Jar will use a slot, but produce no other effect. You can retrieve such items normally. You can use one Jar simultaneously with different types of items. The first weapon or shield inserted will be the "base" item. All subsequent items of the same type Inserted into the Jar will add their bonuses (+1, +3, etc) and any and all seals (e.g. rust-proof, sped up hunger or slow hunger, etc.) to the base item. Weapon and Shield seals are not interchangeable. Bonuses from shields cannot be Melded onto weapons, and vice-versa. Melding with items that either already have the given seals or that are at their maximum bonus value will waste the "extra" seals or bonuses

Extraction

Once items have been melded, you must either break the Jar open (by throwing it against a wall) or use an Extraction Scroll to retrieve the items. Using an Extraction Scroll on a Jar of Melding will remove the items from the Jar, but will only restore a number of slots equal to the number of items retrieved. So, a Melding Jar that contains a single melded weapon and has no remaining slots will become a Melding Jar[1] after an Extraction Scroll is used on it.

Melds & Seals

Shiren 1 DS - Example of all valuable seals.

Commonly referred to by fans as melds and in Shiren 3 and 5, officially referred to as seals are valuable upgrades that can be melded to weapons and shields. Unlike in later games, there are no slots for seals which means you can combine every possible seal to a single weapon.*

Weapon Seals
Sprite	English	Japanese	Seal	Effect
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Golden Blade.png	Golden Blade	金の剣	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Gold.png	Won't rust from traps, monster attacks.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Dragonkiller.png	Dragonkiller	ドラゴンキラー	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Dragon.png	Inflicts 200% damage to dragon-type enemies.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Minotaurs Axe.png	Minotaur's Axe	ミノタウロスの斧	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Critical.png	Can sometimes score a critical hit.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Sickle Slayer.png	Sickle Slayer	成仏の鎌	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Ghost.png	Inflicts 200% damage on ghost-type enemies.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Homing Blade.png	Homing Blade	必中の剣	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Homing.png	Never misses.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Razor Wind.png	Razor Wind	妖刀かまいたち	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal 3x.png	Simultaneously strikes the three directions in front of you.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Cyclops Killer.png	Cyclops Killer	一ツ目殺し	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Cyclops.png	Inflicts 200% damage to one-eyed enemies.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Drain Buster.png	Drain Buster	ドレインバスター	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Drain.png	Inflicts 200% damage to drain-type enemies.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Bufus Cleaver.png	Bufu's Cleaver	ブフーの包丁	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Meat.png	Can sometimes carve meat from monsters you kill.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Crescent Arm.png	Crescent Arm	三日月刀	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Star.png	Inflicts 200% damage to exploding enemies.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Air Slyer.png	Air Slayer	斬空剣	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Air.png	Inflicts 200% damage to floating-type enemies.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Kigny Axe.png	KignyAxe	キグニキングの斧	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Kigny.png	If HP is less then or equal to 1/10th then attacks will score a critical hit.
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Pickaxe.png	Pickaxe (Modified by a town Smith)	つるはし	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Dig.png	Can dig through walls and won't break.
Sprite	Weapon	Japanese	Negative Seal	Effect
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Fragile Edge.png	Fragile Edge	使い捨ての剣	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Fragile.png	Although strong at first, the blade dulls with each blow. (To -20 as the lowest)
File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon - Pickaxe.png	Pickaxe (Unmodified)	つるはし	File:Shiren 1 DS Weapon Seal Pickaxe.png	A wall can be dug. But it will wear down and break. Can be made unbreakable by a Blacksmith.
Shield Seals
Sprite	Shield	Japanese	Seals	Effect
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Gold Shield.png	Gold Shield	金の盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Gold.png	Won't rust from traps, monster attacks.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Dragonward.png	Dragonward	ドラゴンシールド	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Dragon.png	Lowers the damage done by fire breathed by Dragon-type enemies.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Hide Shield.png	Hide Shield	皮甲の盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Hunger.png	Halves the rate in which fullness decreases.
link=https://shiren.gamepedia.com/File:Shiren_DS1_-_Shield_-Spiked Ward.png	Spiked Ward	バトルカウンター	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Spiked.png	Shield repels some enemy damage with a counterattack.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Evasive Shield.png	Evasive Shield	見切りの盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Evasive.png	Makes it easier to dodge enemy attacks.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Blast Shield.png	Blast Shield	地雷ナバリの盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Star.png	Can halve damage done from exploding traps and explosions from exploding-type enemies
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Walrus Shield.png	Walrus Shield	トドの盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Thief.png	Protects your items and money from thief-type enemies.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Prism Shield.png	Prism Shield	プリズムの盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Prism.png	Reduces Skull Mage family and Fog Hermit family's staff attack to fixed 10 damage.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Gaze Shield.png	Gaze Shield	ゲイズの盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Gaze.png	Prevents you from being hypnotized.
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Kigny Shield.png	Kigny Shield	キグニキングの盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Kigny.png	Will sometimes deflect an attack.
Sprite	Shield	Japanese	Negative Seal	Effect
File:Shiren DS1 - Shield -Fragile Shield.png	Fragile Shield	使い捨ての盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Fragile.png	The shield dulls with each hit.
link=https://shiren.gamepedia.com/File:Shiren_DS1_-_Shield_-Armor Ward.png	Armor Ward	重装の盾	File:Shiren 1 Shield Seal Heavy.png	Doubles the rate in which fullness decreases.

Examples

For purposes of illustration here are some examples:

Base	Additions	End Result
Katana +1	Polearm +4, Razor Wind	Katana + 5 with the ability to attack in 3 directions at once.
Armor Ward	Hide Shiled, Hide Shield +3, Wood Shield + 5	1Armor Ward with slowed hunger rate and + 8
1Polearm	Wood Shiled, Armor Ward, Homing Blade	Polearm, Wood Shield with increased hunger rate, Homing Blade
Knockback Staff [4]	Knockback Staff [3]	Knockback Staff [7]
Switching Staff [6]	Knockback Staff [5]	Switching Staff [6], Knockback Staff [5]

¹Melding a Hide Shield into an Armor Ward will not give the Armor Ward Slow Hunger - it will only remove the Armor Ward's Increased Hunger effect. You must meld a second Hide Shield into the Armor Ward to give it Slow Hunger.